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Re:DisplayPort and 4K by seanmcdirmid on Monday February 17, 2020 @02:41PM (#22350064)
4K on a 43” is a pretty low PPI. If you had something worse than that for a screen of the same size, you would be missing out.
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Re:DisplayPort and 4K by jfim on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:30PM (#22352648)
It gives a ridiculously large amount of screen real estate, though.

For example, on one of those, one can have a side-by-side diff with 120+ character lines and still have half of the screen width remaining for documentation or terminals.

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Re:DisplayPort and 4K by seanmcdirmid on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:25PM (#22353191)
It feels like too much screen for me, I’m happy with a single 5K 27”. I could never get used to the unfocus or having multiple things on multiple screens all at once.
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Re:DisplayPort and 4K by zokier on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:17AM (#22354125)
4k@43" is close to PPI of "standard" 1440p@27" or 1080p@22". Considering that the viewing distance probably is bit longer, it sounds pretty appropriate for 100% scaling
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